Sunday, November 11, 2012

I despise the word Optics as used by the kewl-kids inside the
Beltway these days. It simply means "The way things look to the
public". Politicians, by nature, worry about how every action will look
to the public, especially those at home who will pull levers again next
election.

But I warned immediately after the election that I am now willing to put
a timeline on Implosion: Four years or fewer because the Bad People
want to be in power to control the crash and to "re-build" America in their image. Their image is a Red image. Not Republican Red,
but Communist Red. The Bad People also know a massive reset is
needed for either side to win. For Liberty to truly die in America,
there will have to be chaos to facilitate the coming Stalinist/Maoist
purge.

I offered a simple metric for people to determine if my assessment was correct: Watch and see if those in power dismiss the Optics
of their actions. When they no longer care how it looks back home, it
is because they do not plan for the folks back home to be relevant next
election cycle.

Benghazi is proving to be an immediate affirmation that my assessment is
correct. At any other time in America, Benghazi would already be
spoken of in terms of an Impeachable Offense.

In Washington when a political power struggle takes place, the victor
almost always permits the vanquished to "resign" with some dignity in
place. But the crowd in power today did not permit Patreus to resign
with dignity, "To spend more time with his family". The crowd in power
today is a bare-knuckle crew who play for keeps. No, the victor in this
power-play forced Patreus to eat it in public. And he ate it. (That
he ate the infidelity and the utter iron-fisted nature of his dismissal
tells me that they have more in their pocket on the guy, and this was still letting him off the hook a bit.)

The White House does not care that every single politician, bureaucrat
and American who pays attention to politics understands that Patreus was
kept online at the seat of CIA for political reasons, and once the
potential political damage was mitigated (Obama won) they crushed him.
We all know he was sacked because he challenged the White House on
Benghazi, he had damaging knowledge about Benghazi, and we all see the
politics at play...and the players do not care that you know
what they did and why they did it. They want you to know that even the
Director of CIA can be crushed with a whim.

They do not care that you know they did it to bury the details of Benghazi.

The Secretary of State of the United States simply dismisses the House
investigation and refuses to discuss Benghazi with them due to
"scheduling conflicts".

Again, an absolute dismissal of the Optics, from a woman who
has a legitimate shot at the Oval in 4 years. And in less than a week
from the election the brazen disregard for Optics is on full display, even by career politicians such as SoS Clinton.

Three major players have the details that could (and in any other time
would) likely lead to rumbles of Impeachment for Benghazi: The White
House, the State Department, and CIA. (Some military folks surely have
bits and pieces, but probably not all of the details in one place)

CIA is shut down. State can't fit it into the schedule. And
the White House will never talk. Noone in the military with knowledge
will ever talk - not after watching what just happened to 4-Star
Wonderkid Patreus who had his sights on 2016, and would have been a
serious contender.

I am convinced that my original assessment was correct. The clock is ticking. Those in America who admire Stalin and Mao have a plan, and it will be executed without another meaningful Presidential Election.

A genocidal purge is imminent, and those who intend to be Masters afterward no longer bother to care what the public may think.

“What
do you call a man who loves his country but is not so enthusiastic
about the government that confiscates half of his income? Who takes care
of his own family but is not sure why, through tax policies and
affirmative action, he is also supposed to take care of the children of
other people he does not know? Who believes in charity but believes it
begins at home and does not extend beyond the borders of the United
States?

Who
wishes peace and prosperity to the people of the Third World but does
not necessarily want to bring them here? Who admires the brave struggle
of the Israeli people but does not see why American money and military
clout have to be used to do to Palestinians what was done to Jews in the
past? Who wishes no ill to anyone else’s religion but wonders why
non-Christians can use a government-funded by mostly Christian taxes to
teach anti-Christianity in schools and eliminate Christian symbols and
prayers from public places”

I
would call such a man, no matter what party he belongs to or principles
he espouses, an instinctive conservative. Leftists, however,
particularly the leftist tentacles of the institutional octopus of hate
that is strangling both civilization and freedom, would call him a bigot
and an antisemite. It is an easy trick of propaganda to portray all
natural affections in the dark colors of prejudice….[but] to change the
value of words is a more ambitious project. There was a time when
prejudice did not mean hatred of other races….

To
speak of a “conservative mind” in America is somewhat misleading. The
average American does have a conservative heart, but his mind has been
so addled by bad teachers, bad books, and bad ideas that he often feels
guilty if he prefers to limit his charity to his neighbors, if he
resents the money squandered on public schools, in he does not share in
the general glee over the massive immigration that is transforming the
country of his fathers into something he cannot recognize. He is easily
intimidated when the left condemns this vague, inchoate mixture of
family loyalty and patriotism as the bigotry of the “extreme right. “

Reduced
to the clichés of politics, conservatives are guilty of hating and
oppressing non-European racial and ethnic groups, persecuting
non-Christians (especially Jews), exploiting an impoverishing the
working classes, destroying the environment, and waging destructive
wars.

Leftists,
by contrast, promote racial and religious tolerance, work selflessly
for the welfare of the working classes, preserve the environment, and,
to cap it all, they always “give peace a chance.” Leftists know this to
be true, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Leftists
like to apply the “fascist” label to conservatives, and, in the
process, the equate fascist with Nazi, a lie they can get away with
because the leftists who control our schools make sure that Americans
grow up stupid, ignorant, and helpless. On the other hand, leftists
scream bloody murder if their own principles are described as Marxist,
socialist, or communist – which they are.

Our
[conservative] fathers and grandfathers told race jokes and belonged to
restricted clubs; [leftists] fathers and grandfathers shilled for
Stalin or the equally bloodthirsty Trotsky. No, we are not perfect, and
yes, conservative societies have, on occasion, betrayed their deepest
principles, and committed terrible crimes. They, since the days of
Robespierre, have committed mass theft and mass murder on principle.

And,
when the lack the power to kill and rob, they make do with corrupting
the young with pornography; destroying marriage with feminism and
homosexualism; undermining our morals with Freudianism and behaviorism;
warping our sense of beauty with free verse, abstract expressionist
painting, and Bauhaus architecture; and, if we dare complain, they cry,
“antisemite,” as if Jackson Pollock or the Bauhaus architects were
Jewish.

Yes,
in addition to their other fine qualities, leftists are chronic liars
about every subject they discuss, from Athenian democracy to second-hand
smoke. Even the term they use to describe themselves, liberal, is a
lie. American liberals are non-revolutionary socialists, and their
allies to the left are unreconstructed Marxists. We ought to forgive
them, I suppose, because they have no choice. When your entire worldview
is based on counterfactual assumptions about human nature – the
equality of the sexes, the immorality of private property and status,
the artificiality of the family, etc. – you cannot help lying about
everything, whether the subject under discussion is women in the
military, the danger of asbestos, the “epidemic” of father-daughter
incest, or the effectiveness of public education.

Why
should any conservative care if he is attacked by the leftists of the $PLC, the ADL or those of the New York Times? These people have lies in
their mouths, blood on their hands for the great genocides of the 20th century, and guilt on their consciences for the seduction of the innocent and the destruction of our civilization.

Our
task, as our late friend Mel Bradford put is, is to remember who we are
and stop our ears against the siren song of the revolutionists, which
have proved to be not the anthems of a new dawn, but a message of hate
and filth that leads to destruction.”

Petty Officer Third Class Nguyễn Văn Kiệt and Lt. j.g. Thomas R. Norris. Norris was awarded the Medal of Honor and Nguyễn was recognized with the Navy Cross.

They took an abandoned sampan
and cautiously searched the river shore for two more hours without
success. They reluctantly returned to their forward operating base to
rest and hope they would be more successful the next night.[1]
Forward air controller Harold Icke on Bilk 11 fixed Hambleton's
position during the day so Norris and Nguyen could find him that night.[5]
On the night of 12 April, Norris and Nguyen found a deserted village
and clothing which they used to disguise themselves as fishermen.[6] They took advantage of the abandoned sampan
to row quietly up the river. Even in the pitch dark and dense fog, they
could see large numbers of North Vietnamese soldiers and tanks on the
shoreline. Traveling upriver in the sampan, they broke out of the heavy
fog and found themselves under the Cam Lo bridge. They had passed
Hambleton's position more than 30 minutes ago. Turning around, they
finally found Hambleton sitting in a clump of bushes, alive but partly
delirious. Sunrise was coming, and although Norris thought it best to
wait until dark to return downriver, Hambleton needed to be evacuated
immediately. Despite the risk, they hid Hambleton in the bottom of the
sampan, covered him with bamboo, and started downriver.[1]

Their sampan was soon spotted by North Vietnamese troops, some of
whom fired at them, but Norris and Nguyen could not afford to return
fire. They traveled down river and Norris called in air support to
eliminate the North Vietnamese shooting at them from the northern bank.
They rescued
Clark and Hambleton, but Walker was discovered and killed by the NVA
before they could return to rescue him.
A book was written about
Nguyen's heroism by William Charles Anderson, the book was later adapted into a 1988 movie, Bat*21. In 1999, after the release of considerable classified information, a second book, The Rescue of Bat 21, was published by Darrel D. Whitcomb. Nguyen emigrated to the United States, and, as of 2008, resided in Washington State.

Nguyễn Văn Kiệt on left

Thomas R. Norris in 2008

Six months later, in October 1972, Norris sustained a near-fatal head
wound in combat while protecting forces evacuating to his rear. A South
Vietnamese soldier saw his severe head injury and left him, believing
that Norris was dead. Fellow Navy SEAL Michael E. Thornton,
upon hearing the news, went back intending to recover the body of his
fallen comrade, only to discover that Norris was still just barely
alive. Thornton was recognized with the Medal of Honor for his actions;
he was the first person in more than a century to receive the Medal of
Honor for saving the life of another Medal of Honor recipient. Norris
received the Medal of Honor from President Gerald R. Ford in a White House ceremony on March 6, 1976.

On June 3, 2004, at Ho Chi Minh City’s Saigon's Long Binh execution
ground, Vietnamese mafioso Truong Van Cam was shot with four of his
lieutenants for ordering the murder of a rival crime lord.
An anti-communist soldier during the Vietnam War, “Nam Cam”
(“Cam the fifth sibling”) survived a communist re-education camp and
ingratiated himself sufficiently with the powers to ensconce himself as a wealthy and influential
power broker within the country through the
late 1970′s and 1980′s.

Nam Cam emerges from court after hearing his death sentence on June 5, 2003.

His arrest in 2001 for ordering a hit in a characteristic underworld turf war mushroomed into a vast corruption scandal, implicating a network of official protectors who ran interference for his criminal syndicate.

More than 150 people
stood trial with Nam Cam — including “two expelled members of the
150-member Communist Party central committee, the former head of the
state radio system, and the former director of police in Troung Nam
Cam’s base of operation, Ho Chi Minh City Saigon.” (Source)

The doomed capo reportedly indulged the comfort of gloating that “the
Communists may have thought they defeated South Vietnam, but I have
shown that they are rotten to the core with corruption.”

Mainers went to the polls yesterday to vote on a number of issues,
but perhaps none as heated as Question 1 (that is after the heated issue
of Romney v Obama). Question 1 was an initiative to legalize same-sex
marriages in the state of Maine. Sadly, it passed by a 53% to 47%
margin, making it the first time a same-sex marriage measure was passed
by popular vote of the people.

In 2009, the Maine legislature passed An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom
which was signed into law by Governor John Balducci. Before the act
took effect, a referendum to repeal the law was launched. By a margin
of 53% to 47%, the people of Maine voted to repeal the legislature’s
same-sex marriage act.

In the summer of 2011, gay rights groups in
Maine began collecting signatures to get the issue back on the ballot.
After collecting nearly double the amount of required signatures, they
succeeded and Question 1 was placed on the yesterday’s ballot.

To help inform the public on the issues of same-sex marriage and homosexuality, Gorham Middle School Principal Robert Riley
invited Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine (PRISM) to give a
presentation to the students during their Diversity Day. Instead of the
hearing the expected discussion on tolerance, the students and faculty
were presented with graphic explanations of gay and lesbian sexual acts.

Needless
to say, the parents in this town of about 15,000 people that lies a
mere 11 miles east of Portland, are in an uproar over what their
children were exposed to. One such parent, Kristy Howard told local reporters:

Principal Riley felt everything else went well except that one
‘little’ incident, he sent a letter of apology home with every student.
However the damage has already been done and I don’t believe what
happened was just an accident. Gay activists are actively trying to
recruit children to their perverted and sinful lifestyle.

“Recruiting
children?” You bet we are. [Conservatives] accuse us of exploiting
children and in response we say, ‘NOOO! We’re not gonna make kids learn
about homosexuality, we swear! …But let’s face it–that’s a lie. We want
educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer
sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it… Can we please just
start admitting that we do actually want to indoctrinate kids?”

Parents
be warned because the gay movement is targeting your children and
actively trying to recruit them. In states like California and
Massachusetts, children are already being taught pro-homosexual
curriculum. Many public school libraries have books for the students to
check-out that portray homosexuality as being more normal than
traditional heterosexual relationships.

What happened in Gorham
Middle School could happen in your child’s public school. Are you
prepared to fight against it or are you going to allow your children to
be exposed to sexually explicit homosexual material? You’re the
parent. You’re the one responsible for your children’s education and
spiritual wellbeing. Parents – It’s all up to you.

Last week the Florida Board of Education decided to institute a new
set of standards for grading students reading prowess in their state.
Florida’s new student achievement goals are designed to take into
account the unique family life and socioeconomic background of different
races and there effect on student reading scores. In other words
different races will be graded differently because as we all know we are
all products of our environment.

Florida like most states has
been struggling with substandard minority reading scores for some time.
Last year in the sunshine state, 69% of white students tested at grade
level on the state FCAT test. Hispanics came in second at 53% while less
than 40% of black students managed to prove they could read at grade
level.

In an attempt to meet the terms of waivers granted to
Florida (and 32 other states) from provisions of the federal “No Child
Left Behind Act” (as well as bridging the minority student to
non-minority student achievement gap); Florida is lowering reading
standards for minority and some poor students. Apparently in Florida
kids don’t have to read at the same grade level anymore especially if
their black and poor. Oh brother!

Jesse Jackson Jr. is currently being treated for health issues and while
some have questioned whether he could ever return to Congress, a plea
deal on charges of misuse of campaign funds may guarantee he does not
return to Washington.

The just-re-elected congressman is negotiating a plea deal for misuse of
campaign funds that would include resigning his seat in Congress,
repaying the money, and spending time in jail, reported CBS Chicago.

Since June, Jackson has been on leave while receiving treatment for
bi-polar disorder. He was re-elected last Tuesday despite not
campaigning while taking care of his health.

Illinois Congressman Danny Davis told Reuters in October that Jackson
appeared frail and emotional when he saw him and there was no way to
know if he would be able to return to his seat in Congress.

"I think this rest at the Mayo Clinic may be just what the doctor
ordered and may be just what he needs," Davis said. "But you can't
tell."

The plea deal, currently being negotiated, would include Jackson
resigning for health reasons, pleading guilty to misuse of campaign
funds and repaying campaign contributions that were allegedly used for
personal items.

Based on similar cases in the past, he likely will serve some jail time, according to the CBS report.

I don't see the wheel turning for 10 or 12 years, but when it does it
will be an outraged and vengeful Millennial demographic, likely
libertarian with no care whatsoever for social issues, that will be
dragging all of our asses, Democrat and Republican alike, off to be
shot.

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What happened November 6th? Well, Obama won, if you haven't heard. What didn't
happen? The White House didn't flip. The Senate didn't flip. The House
didn't flip. $2 billion later, nothing much changed. The GOP garnered
even more governorships, and more statehouses. No big shit there. We all
know there's no power beyond Washington anymore, so those are just Miss
Congeniality contests.

But what happened? Two things.

Tactically
The Democrats beat the Republicans like runaway slaves on the ground
game. They hustled, they got out the vote, for better or worse they
isolated demographics and played upon their fears and ignorance. That's
all fair. Democrats live politics. They are community organizers. It's what they do.
And they did it very well. And they had the Chicago Machine behind
them, as formidable a force as politics has ever known. They steal, they
commit fraud, they commit crimes. But they don't even have to, to win.
They just do that for fun. Republicans can't get up enough activists for
a sandlot baseball game. You can't win the game if you don't show up.

And speaking of baseball, I've voted in 10 presidential elections now.
Won 5, lost 5. That's batting .500. If I'm a professional ballplayer I'm
in the fucking Hall of Fame. As I am not a professional ballplayer I am
the median outcome in a cosmic game of coin flips.

One week before the presidential election, a Congressional committee released Obama administration emails that showed a pattern of political pressure from President Barack Obama and others in his administration. The emails indicate favoritism toward Democrat politicians and donors in the awarding of federal energy loans.

The mainstream media chose not to report on the emails, even though just days before their release, Obama had flatly stated in an interview that politics played no part in awarding the loans

In the old days of hard-nosed journalism, i.e., before the Age of Obama, if the president was caught lying about his involvement in a government payola scandal, it would have been front page news and led the evening newscasts of the broadcast networks.

Not anymore.

Even with the release of an email in which an official says what, in a different media era, would become a catch phrase for administration corruption: “What’s a billion, anyhow?”

Even with the release of emails showing President Obama personally involved in awarding loans.

Even with the release of emails explicitly stating loans were given to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid win his reelection bid in Nevada in 2010.

Even with emails showing Obama donors got help from Vice President Biden in securing loans.

Even with all that and an election on the line, there was no coverage from the mainstream media. The emails were only reported by a trio of conservative media outlets: The Washington Examiner, Human Events and The Daily Caller.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the emails, accompanied by a summary memorandum, on October 31. The emails and memorandum and other material were also made available to the public on the Internet.

Excerpts from the memorandum that failed to move the mainstream media (emphasis added):

Florida officials have ordered a partial recount in the race between
Republican Allen West and his challenger Democrat Patrick Murphy. As we
reported yesterday,
there was over 100% turnout in several precincts in St. Lucie County,
Florida. The election officials in that county announced late yesterday
that there would be an emergency meeting Sunday morning at 7 AM.

It turns out this emergency meeting was set up to recount the ballots
cast during early voting. It is estimated that roughly 37,000 early
ballots were cast.

West, who has refused to concede the race, is currently
trailing Murphy by 2,442 votes, according to the latest results from
Florida Division of Elections. On its website, the agency says West has
garnered 164,448 votes to Murphy’s 166,890.

"There are possible irregularities in St. Lucie County," claims
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a Florida lawyer volunteering for the West
campaign who has been quoted on the issue. "On Sunday we'll have a
chance to recount the early votes and that's a good start to preserving
the integrity of the democratic process."

West's campaign said in a Saturday statement it was pleased with the news of the partial recount.
"This decision should help shed light on the situation of this
election," the statement said. "This is the action we were seeking to
ensure the results of this election were fair and accurate."

West's campaign had said earlier Saturday that issues with the voting in St. Lucie County meant the race was still undecided.

"Late on Election Night, Congressman West led by 1,700 votes," West
for Congress said in a statement. "Following the St. Lucie County
Supervisor of Elections’ decision to recount thousands of early ballots
after a technical glitch, the margin shifted by 4,000. In order to
ensure that votes were not doubled counted, we have requested that the
St. Lucie Supervisor of Elections make public the poll check-in books to
ensure the numbers of ballots cast matches the numbers of voters
checked-in at the polls."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned down an invitation to
testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee next Thursday on the
Benghazi attack.

A committee update this evening indicated that Michael Courts, acting
director of International Affairs and Trade for the Government
Accountability Office, will be testifying followed by a RAND Corp.
analyst.

The committee indicated further witnesses could be added, but the State Department confirmed that Clinton won’t be one of them.

“She was asked to appear at House Foreign Affairs next week, and we
have written back to the chairman to say that she’ll be on travel next
week,” said department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. She did not answer a
question about whether Clinton would be willing to fly back from
Australia to address either the Foreign Affairs panel or the Senate and
House closed-door intelligence committee hearings getting to the root of
the Benghazi scandal.

“The Committee plans to hold the second segment of this hearing the
week of November 26, 2012 and will request Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton testify before the Committee at that time,” the Foreign
Affairs Committee said in an advisory.

Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) wrote Clinton on
Tuesday to demand that the State Department respond to the panel’s
requests for information on Benghazi.

“It is disappointing that we have yet to receive any response from
your Department and that we are receiving more information from the
press than from the Administration,” Ros-Lehtinen wrote.

On a blazing
Wednesday in July 1862, an invalid teenager from Macon, Ga., opened the
journal he was keeping to make his daily entry. “Terribly hot,” he
wrote. It was so hot that beads of his sweat fell onto the page.

He tried to rub them off, but they smeared the ink. Mindful of
his readers, he explained, “notwithstanding we have just eaten a nice
melon . . . perspiration pours off me and drops on the book.”

A century and a half later, LeRoy Wiley Gresham’s smudges still
mark the page, in a kind of communion with students of his remarkable
record of the Civil War, the collapse of the Old South, and the last
years of his privileged but afflicted life.

It is a chronicle —
in neat, legible handwriting — of the excitement of the war’s early
months, the seeming endlessness of the conflict and the approach of the
dreaded Yankees as they steamroll through Georgia.

From his
rooftop, LeRoy sees the smoke and hears the booming of cannons in the
distance. At night there is the glow from burning houses.

The Library of Congress is
featuring selected pages of Gresham’s little-known diary as part of an
extensive display of its voluminous Civil War material to mark the
sesquicentennial of the war years.
The exhibit, which opens Monday, is called “The Civil War in America,”
and includes more than 200 items — maps, song sheets, letters,
photographs and the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets the night he
was assassinated.

As for Gresham’s journal, numerous Civil War diaries exist, and some are famous. Those of South Carolina belle Mary Chesnut and New York lawyer George Templeton Strong are among the best known.

But
Gresham’s apparently has never been published, the library said, and
it offers a unique view of the war and an intimate personal story. The
library acquired it in the 1980s from family descendants.
The
diary also speaks about slavery and its demise — about “servants” and
“valets,” always in the background and almost always referred to by
first name only, Howard, Eaveline and “Mammy Dinah.”

And it is
the saga, in seven volumes, of a precocious, delicate boy who was a
voracious consumer of books and newspapers, but who was often confined
to a special wagon that was pulled about town by slave.

Crippled
by a broken left leg years before, and tormented by what sound like
bedsores, and a host of other infirmities, LeRoy is exposed to a full
range of Victorian remedies — opiates, whiskey, syrup of lettuce,
spirits of lavender, and various powders, plasters and poultices.
Little of it works.

From his wagon, he can only watch the other children play “town ball,” a
precursor to baseball. He has to be carried at times — he weighs 63
pounds — and in one case his mother drops him. He is often despondent.

“I
feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever
did before,” he writes on March 17, 1863, at the age of 15. “I am
weaker and more helpless than I ever was.”
And on Feb. 7, 1864:
“It seems to me that as I grow older, the dreary, monotonous life I lead
seems more burdensome. If I just had some regular employment I could
get along better.”

The house, built in 1842 by John Gresham, is a fine specimen of Greek
revival architecture. Mr. Gresham, a former mayor of Macon, attorney,
judge and cotton merchant lived in the home until 1900 when it was
purchased by the B. F. Adams family.

The Adams family made significant changes, which include extending the
front porch and erecting columns as well as installing parquet floor and
Victorian tile insets on the fireplaces. The Victorian Cottage, which
sits across the courtyard from the main house, was moved onto the almost
2 acre property to supplement the main house in 1983. The Cottage
consists of nine fully furnished guest rooms with 12-foot ceilings,
original heart of pine flooring and a large front porch overlooking the
courtyard.

The inn now consists of nineteen guest rooms, hospitality parlors,
service facilities, as well as a courtyard and porches for
entertaining.

We have all heard emotional charges that various public officials are
‘traitors’ or are guilty of ‘treason’. Most of us either concur, out of
an emotional ‘knee-jerk’ response, or else consider the charge
ridiculous on its face, all depending on our partisan position.

Our exercise in logic today is a simple one. Let’s consider the issue
of treason allegedly committed by various of our public officials from a
position of reason rather than emotion. First, let’s define our terms,
then we can connect our ‘dots’.

Treason 1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign,
esp. the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by
consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies. 2. A betrayal of
trust or confidence.

The United States Constitution – the foundational law of the United States of America.
The Oath of Office: “… to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Question #1: When one elected to public office places his or her hand
on a Bible and swears before God and his/her fellow citizens to protect
and defend the Constitution, and then proceeds to write or support
legislation in direct violation of that Constitution or issues executive
orders in direct violation of that Constitution, or fails to defend the
Constitution against those who do, is that not a direct betrayal of
trust or confidence? And, if that is a direct betrayal of trust that
said official will uphold his/her oath to protect and defend the
Constitution, does that not qualify as treason?

Question #2: Can you name a Federal elected official not guilty of treason? A state official? A local official?

Question #3: Assuming you’re having difficulty answering question #2
in the affirmative for at least a simple majority of said elected
officials, what do you intend to do about it?
Remember, “Freedom isn’t free.”

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

Sincerely,

Scott Fitts

*It would have to be an improvement. :) BT

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Hi Brock,

Ever since I picked up on your blog I "Knew" you were a "Gentleman of the South!" You lack the "Crassness" that is so prevalent in today's Sociopolitical arena but speak with the Firmness in Truth and Conviction of Right like the words of our Late Great President Jefferson Davis! That is Honorable.

I have been thinking about this for a while now. At first it was a very subtle notice, then it became larger as I saw more. Then it bloomed to me to be what it is. In your writings, in your Blog, Brock, "You" have written, posted and done more to eradicate the "Revisionist History" forced on us by the "Northern Aggressors,"BAR NONE!!!" The "Stars and Bars" fly High and Proud today even more thanks to your efforts!

Reading your post on 03 JUNE about the birthday of President Jefferson Davis and the "quotes" of his was the galvanizing statement! The first words of "His" you posted say so much, are timeless and can never be "Destroyed!" by any man! .......and those words were........

"Truth crushed to the earth is still truth still and like a seed will rise again."--Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

In so many ways you and your efforts to keep and carry on the "Truth of the South" are the water and light of the Sun that nourish "That Seed" that Jefferson Davis speaks of! That "Seed" of "Southern Truth!" That cannot be vanquished because of efforts like Men as yourself!

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